There has been introduced in the Oregon legislature a bill compelling parents and guardians to employ doctors of some school of medicine in case of sickness in their families.
It is probable that many Christian people who have opposed the Christian Science teaching that physical healing should be effected without the use of drugs, are unfamiliar with the fact that the founder of Methodism fully believed in spiritual healing, and at times relied wholly upon God for health and strength, and this not for himself alone but for his beasts as well.
Bigotry and the latent spirit of persecution has so far prevailed in the legislature as to induce the members in both branches to pass a law aimed at the practice of Christian Science.
The
following statement by Alfred Farlow, Christian Science Publication Committee for the United States, was addressed, March 10, to the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Maine, in reply to a circular letter to Christian Scientists by Senator Potter, in which he said,—
Unusual
space is given in this issue to matter pertaining to medical legislation, in view of the general educational need, and of the special significance of the subject to Christian Scientists.
The
Apostle James says, "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
The
teaching of Christian Science has altered our entire thought with regard to God's will to meet our wants, and we are now assured that the divine purpose embraces the satisfaction of every human need, and that every evil shall cease; we therefore no longer ask, with timid apprehension, and much uncertainty, as to whether our healing from sickness as well as sin be according to God's will, but we come to God with confidence that we are fulfilling the divine will in so far as we gain the grace that shall banish all discord and disease from our experience.
